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Computing evaluations
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Independent of whether the evaluation is computed in a subgoal or a single
production, it must be computed.  There are two classes of evaluations,
symbolic and numeric.  The default knowledge provides support for processing
and comparing evaluations.

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Computing numeric evaluations
Comparing numeric evaluations
Computing symbolic evaluations
Default evaluations
Novalue evaluations